Biography of alvaro obregón salido, mexican president

He built a wide base of popular support through much of the country and joined it to the alliance of revolutionary chiefs in northwestern Mexico in order to challenge successfully the attempt by Venustiano Carranza to establish hegemony over the national government. He was elected president in , and again in , but was assassinated before taking office.

The great flood of and Yaqui Indian raids thereafter had ruined his hacienda in the Mayo Valley. The Salidos owned the most important haciendas in the Mayo Valley. As a boy, he worked at odd jobs to help support the family, developing mechanical interests and abilities.

Pancho villa

He began work as a mechanic at the flour mill of his uncles. In , he moved to central Sinaloa to work in a similar capacity at the largest sugar refinery in that state, owned by an in-law of the Salido family. Two years later he returned to the Mayo Valley, briefly teaching school, then became mill manager on his uncles' hacienda.

In , recently married, he struck out on his own. After renting land for a year, he purchased a farm of nearly acres, in part with a loan from the Salidos. He also worked on the extension of railroad lines and irrigation works. His years of working closely with small farmers, rural workers, and industrial laborers had cultivated in him a concern for their plight.